Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Road Safety: Discussion
Mr. Michael Rowland:
A total of 45% of fatalities occur between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. at weekends, while 46% of fatalities occur on a Friday or Sunday and seven in ten fatalities occur on rural roads with speed limits of 80 km/h or greater. Men feature more frequently in those fatalities. We mentioned the younger people who have been killed on our roads. A lot of those younger people were passengers in vehicles driven by others. In recent years, there has been a gradual increase in the number of accidents involving pedestrians and motorcyclists and as of today, 32 pedestrians have been killed this year.
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